This is a small animation prop i made using mod-rock. first of all the body is just balled up newspaper a bigger ball for the body, a smaller ball for the head, even smaller balls for the feet and a more tubular shape for the tail. the ears are triangular pieces of cardboard then its all covered in mod-rock to hard the sculpture then painted in a mix of colours.

South Park Season 1 Theme Song

This a clip showing the original theme song for the infamous "Southpark" 1997-present, i have chosen to show this particular clip as even in the theme song they are showing you that there paper based stop motion animation. Trey Parker and Matt Stone (creators) said that in order to make an episode they had brainstorm it first and that each character would take ages to cut out each character even down to their little mouths that would pronounce each word frame by frame, there is also an episode based on their old technique using the characters creating their own stop motion animation.

Bagpuss Songs - 01 - We Will Wash It

This is a short clip from the 1970s british childrens show "BagPuss",in this clip we can see one of BagPuss' notorious sing alongs. BagPuss made up story lines and songs to go with traditional fairy tales and folk legends. each episode is shot using various characters all different dolls and toys which are animated using stop motion (frame by frame). Because the show had an audience of primary school children and toddlers the animation style didn't have to be of fantastic quality (that and it was made in the 70s). The creator and narrator Oliver Postgate had done many more children's tv shows some of which were stop motion animation like "The Clangers" and some hand drawn animation like "Ivor the engine".

There is no comparison between South Park and Bagpuss they are made for completely different target audiences as Bagpuss is made for a more younger audience of like 4-7 year olds, the use of real toys and the colours are there to keep the young audience interested and the storylines have morals for children to follow. The style is stop motion and robotics used for the motion whereas with South Park it's for a more mature audience 15 years and older now the animation style has changed from the original cut outs of sugar paper and stop motion to digital animation where the lines are a lot smoother and the movement is also more crisp. 

pretty crappy "pockets" first attempt.

The reason why i think that this didn't go as planned is because it was our first project and we didn't know how to use the software properly or even know about frame rates so we attempted and learnt from our mistakes. 

This was mine and Ayan's  attempt at making  characters we made a fish and a shark out of plasticine and the background is a drawing. we were given the word "Sea" and this what we came up with...

an introduction to my animation...to watch out for on this blog
>pockets
>persistence of vision and frame rates
>Edward Maybridge and bullet time
>Sea task
>Willis Obrien and King Kong
>creature comforts (Aardman adverts)

AND MUCH MUCH MORE!